Vitamin D and Increased Sputum Culture Conversion

• Efficacy and safety of vitamin D supplementation in treating pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2026-04-22
  • Meta-Analysis
  • BMC infectious diseases 26(1)
  • • Chunyan Fan
    • Xiaoli Ye
    • Chengpeng Wang
    • Yuqing Wu
    • Bin Tong
    • Lin Han

  • PubMed: 42021229
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13321-7

  7 Insights on

  • Increased Sputum Culture Conversion

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  No significant effect was observed on sputum culture conversion (SCC) (RR: 1.08; 95% CI: 0.95–1.22; P=0.25; low GRADE certainty; I²=67%, P=0.05)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No